David M Levy

Biographic Data

ID294278
NAMEDavid M Levy
GIVEN NAMESDavid M
FAMILY NAMELevy
SIGNATURELEVY D M
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Mason University
ORCID0000-0003-0645-6845
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS77
TOTAL CITATIONS72
AUTHOR COUNT77
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1927
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Frank H. Knight's Eulogy of Abram L. Harris

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2025References: 6

    Abram L. Harris was the second Black person to obtain an economics Ph.D. in the United States and a major figure in the early years of the American Civil Rights movement. Upon his death in 1963 his colleague and friend, Frank Knight delivered memorial remarks. The remembrance explains how Knight and Harris met, how Harris came to Chicago, and how the two scholars shared an intellectual commitment to the idea of race as “caste” and an opposition t…

  • Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives ed. by Felicity Loughlin and Alexandra Johnston

    David M Levy, David LevyARTICLEThe Classical World2023

    Reviewed by: Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives ed. by Felicity Loughlin and Alexandra Johnston David Levy Felicity Loughlin and Alexandra Johnston, eds. Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives. Metaforms, 17. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 247. $127.00. ISBN 9789004412675. Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Lawrence Kowerski, Classics Program, Hunter Col…

  • Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School

    David M Levy, Sandra J PeartBOOKTowards an Economics of Natural…2019

  • Gordon Tullock’s ill-fated appendix: “Flatland Revisited”

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2016Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Group Analytics in Adam Smith’s Work

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEEastern Economic Journal2016References: 1

  • M ill, J ohn S tuart (1806–73)

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2015

    Mill's doctrine that we cannot logically impute differences in the type of human from observed outcomes has so triumphed that modern readers find it difficult to take seriously the nineteenth century argument that the Irish were a race apart. Mill's doctrine that we have moral rights as humans, not as the member of groups, remains the most controversial aspect of his egalitarianism.

  • Economic Liberals as Quasi-Public Intellectuals: The Democratic Dimension

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J Peart et al.CHAPTERDocuments on Government and the…2012

  • Tullock on motivated inquiry: Expert-induced uncertainty disguised as risk

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEPublic Choice2012References: 22

  • Richard Whately and the Gospel of Transparency

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, David Levy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2010Cited by: 2References: 14

    Whately is a difficult thinker, partly because he is competent in so many disciplines. Joseph Schumpeter, who struggled with Whatley's "elusive" greatness, saw a systematic core in Whately: the force behind Nassau Senior's axiomatics. Whately's contemporaries did not talk of axiomatics, but they did point out that his work depended upon an unusually small number of authorities, that is, Aristotle, Bacon, and Smith. In our interpretation, these fo…

  • Larry Moss and the Struggle Against Racism by the Whately Professors of Political Economy

    Open AccessSandra J Peart, David M LevyARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2010Cited by: 1References: 7

    In this note, we highlight an important consideration of Larry Moss's life's work, the continual struggle within economics against racism. Larry initiated and supported the symposium on eugenics published by the American Journal of Economics and Sociology in July 2005. He edited the volume Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism and the March Toward Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences in August 2008. These constitute obvious signs of…

  • Discussion, construction and evolution: Mill, Buchanan and Hayek on the constitutional order

    Open AccessSandra J Peart, David M LevyARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2008Cited by: 2References: 6

  • Thinking About Analytical Egalitarianism

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2008Cited by: 2References: 10

  • More, Faster, Better: Governance in an Age of Overload, Busyness, and Speed

    Open AccessDavid M LevyARTICLEFirst Monday2006

    While today’s information technologies provide powerful means to connect us to one another and to vast sources of information, there is increasing evidence that they are also having the opposite effect: disconnecting and distancing us from ourselves and the world around us. Indeed, information overload and the accelerating pace of life — conditions the technologies encourage if not determine — appear to be contributing to health problems, decreas…

  • Robots Unlimited: Life in a Virtual Age

    David M Levy, David Levy et al.BOOKRobots Unlimited2005

    Consider this: Robots will one day be able to write poetry and prose so touching that it will make men weep; compose dozens or even hundreds of symphonies that will rival the work of Mozart; judge a court case with absolute impartiality and fairness; or even converse with the natural ease of your best friend. Robots will one day be so life-like tha

  • The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading

    David M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2005Cited by: 4References: 11

    Research Article| December 01 2005 The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading David M. Levy; David M. Levy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sandra J. Peart Sandra J. Peart Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (Suppl_1): 120–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-Suppl_1-120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitt…

  • From Cardinal to Ordinal Utility Theory: Darwin and Differential Capacity for Happiness

    Open AccessSandra J Peart, David M LevyARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2005Cited by: 6References: 26

    This paper examines the transition from cardinal to ordinal utility. We begin with the egalitarian utilitarianism of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer, in which everyone was supposed to count as one. That is their phrase to explain how the happiness of existing people was to be maximized. We compare Spencer's goal with Darwin's goal of the "general good," in which the number of perfect people was to be maximized. Spencer's goal was egalitarian, whil…

  • Sympathy and Approbation in Hume and Smith: A Solution to the Other Rational Species Problem

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEEconomics and Philosophy2004

    David Hume's sympathetic principle applies to physical equals. In his account, we sympathize with those like us. By contrast, Adam Smith's sympathetic principle induces equality. We consider Hume's “other rational species” problem to see whether Smith's wider sympathetic principle would alter Hume's conclusion that “superior” beings will enslave “inferior” beings. We show that Smith introduces the notion of “generosity,” which functions as if it …

  • "Who Are the Canters?" The Coalition of Evangelical-Economic Egalitarians

    David M Levy, Sandra J PeartARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2003Cited by: 3References: 9

    Research Article| November 01 2003 “Who Are the Canters?” The Coalition of Evangelical-Economic Egalitarians David M. Levy; David M. Levy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sandra J. Peart Sandra J. Peart Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (4): 731–757. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-731 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supp…

  • Galton's Two Papers on Voting as Robust Estimation

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, Sandra J Peart et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2002Cited by: 1References: 9

  • Katallactic Rationality: Exploring the Links between Co-operation and Language

    Open AccessDavid M Levy, David LevyARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…1999Cited by: 1References: 10

    IS the well-known finding of experimental economics that talk is correlated with co-operation in prisoner-dilemma contexts related to Adam Smith's claim that trade requires language? Using Smith's postulate of the existence of a desire for approbation and the supposition that language carries approbation, we demonstrate how the ability to exchange approbation enhances the rationality of co-operation

  • The Technological Obsolescence of Scientific Fraud

    Open AccessSusan Feigenbaum, Susan K Feigenbaum et al.ARTICLERationality and Society1996Cited by: 5References: 10

    In a world where researchers prefer their experiments to have a particular outcome, scientific fraud and research bias are alternative methods to implement such preferences. A critical constraint distinguishes these two methods: biased research is `narrowly replicable' while fraud is non-replicable. Recent proposals to severely punish fraud have typically excluded biased research from their purview. An unintended consequence of such asymmetric sa…

  • The Debate over Vietnam

    David M Levy, David W Levy et al.BOOKThe debate over Vietnam1995

  • Short notices

    Tony Chafer, William Fortescue et al.ARTICLEModern & Contemporary France1994

    Ager, D., ed., ACTIF 1992 (Aston Modern Languages Club, 1992), 117pp., ISBN 1 85 449083 4 Agulhon, M. Les Qusraate‐huitards (Gallimard, 1992), 263pp., 34F., ISBN 2 070 32685 3 Albert, J.‐L., La Politique Française de la concurrence. Le chant du cygne? (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1992), 180pp., 90F., ISBN 2 7297 0420 5 Auzias, J.‐M., Michel Serres ‐philosophe occitan (Artigues‐près‐Bordeaux, Fedérop/Jorn, 1992), 167pp., 90F., ISBN 2 85792 067…

  • The fragile politics of addiction

    Open AccessDavid M LevyARTICLEPublic Choice1994Cited by: 1References: 9

  • The Economic Ideas of Ordinary People: From Preference to Trade

    Jorma Sappinen, David M LevyARTICLEThe Economic Journal1994